{"id":58852,"date":"2025-10-03T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58852\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:30:07","slug":"nz-and-samoa-reach-deal-on-hmnzs-manawanui-reef-disaster-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/58852\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ and Samoa reach deal on HMNZS Manawanui reef disaster compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Approached for comment, Defence Minister Judith Collins\u2019 office referred questions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">An MFAT spokesperson said the ministry would respond on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking to RNZ Pacific last month, Samoa\u2019s former prime minister Fiame Naomi Mata\u2019afa said the New Zealand Government had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hmnzs-manawanui-sinking-two-people-treated-in-hospital-in-samoa-commander-praised-in-rescue-effort-after-nz-navy-ship-ran-aground\/44PLWNBV6RBVJHLVHARNGMOUKU\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hmnzs-manawanui-sinking-two-people-treated-in-hospital-in-samoa-commander-praised-in-rescue-effort-after-nz-navy-ship-ran-aground\/44PLWNBV6RBVJHLVHARNGMOUKU\/\">\u201cvery forthcoming\u201d<\/a> in discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe had to do a survey to advise New Zealand in terms of compensation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat\u2019s more or less finalised, so it\u2019s just a matter of beginning to do the implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">An inquiry released in April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hmnzs-manawanui-what-we-know-about-the-navy-ships-sinking\/JRZLWOTLFRAATIQRJM4JKMTVMI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/hmnzs-manawanui-what-we-know-about-the-navy-ships-sinking\/JRZLWOTLFRAATIQRJM4JKMTVMI\/\">found the ship\u2019s crew was undertrained and the vessel was not up to the task.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"brdZfQpMhqMp\" style=\"display:none\">-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approached for comment, Defence Minister Judith Collins\u2019 office referred questions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,334,3468,48803,1229,48801,48802,111,43,139,69,90,19328,12060,5902],"class_list":["post-58852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-compensation","tag-deal","tag-disaster","tag-gallery","tag-hmnzs","tag-manawanui","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-reach","tag-reef","tag-samoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}